. >>> senator john mccain says come on, people. it was just a joke. mccain was responding to the flak that he has been getting for rather slyly calling iran's president a monk eve. mccain made the joke in response tots iranian president talking about going into space. he tweeted this. so ahmadinejad wants to be the first iranian in space, wasn't he just there last week? and the tweet included a link to a story about iran launching a monkey into space. to all of those who were offended mccain tweeted this. re iran space tweet, lighten up folks, can't everyone take a joke? speaking of photographs making big headlines, now to the photo proof for all of those who wanted to see evidence that president obama does occasionally use a firearm, take a look at the picture of president obama skeet shooting at camp david. the white house released this photo over the weekend in response to critics who said they wanted photographic evidence after he talked about it during an interview. he likes to skeet shoot. the president is about to talk about gun control policie